Dr. Jelena Radovanovic

• History of Southeast Europe and the Ottoman Empire
• History of Property
• Legal Translation and Transfer
• Urban History
• Memory Studies

Academic Education

2013 – 2020

PhD, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

2013

MA, Freie Universität Berlin

2010

BA, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

WorkExperience

2020 – 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, MPRG Empires of Memory, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

• Practice: Colonial Approaches to Property [086253]
• Practice: Entangled Reflections: History of Modern Southeast Europe Through the Photographic Lens (19th and 20th centuries) [082259]

Research Article (Journal)

• Radovanovic, Jelena. 2023. “Place without an Owner: Urban Modernization and Waqf Property in post-Ottoman Niš.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 66 (5-6): 677–706. doi: 10.1163/15685209-12341604.

Research Article (Book Contribution)

• Radovanović, Jelena. 2024. “Unmixing peoples, delineating properties: The legal regulation of waqf property in 19th-century Serbia.” in Patrimonialization on the Ruins of Empire: Islamic Heritage and the Modern State in Post-Ottoman Europe, edited by Maximilian Hartmuth and Ayşe D. Hartmuth. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.